Steady Diet of Film

23/07/2017

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22/10/2012

BYOD: Bring Your Own DocDescriptionBYOD is hosted by Ondi Timoner, director of “DIG!,” “JOIN US” and “WE LIVE IN PUBLIC,” and has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance twice. Each week the show explores a different documentary filmmaker or aspect of filmmaking, with specia...

27/07/2012

The Prince Charles Cinema near Leicester Square...not exactly 'on message'.

14/06/2012

Love her, love him, loved the prequel!

We just premiered the official U.S. poster last week and now the official U.S. trailer has arrived for Julie Delpy's "2 Days In New York." A direct (though very unlikely) sequel to the rather hysterical "2 Days In Paris" (an awesome examination of neurosis and relationships), "2 Days In New York," ...

14/06/2012

Direct cinema at its cutest!

Attempting to demonstrate how his production company's head-cam is so easy to use even a child could do it, Sweden-based English filmmaker Daniel Brace attached the rig to his two-year-old toddler Olivia and spent a few minutes playing hide-and-seek with her.

06/06/2012

Ice People is one of our all-time favorites. Director Anne Aghion discusses her more recent work in Rwanda.

Find more on: www.tedxescp.com facebook.com/tedxescp twitter.com/tedxescp TEDxESCP is an independently organised TED event, by students of ESCP Europe in Par...

05/06/2012

Oscilloscope Laboratories has announced that it has acquired North American rights to Bill and Turner Ross's documentary "Tchoupitoulas," which premiered at SXSW earlier this year.

30/05/2012

Indie filmmakers, we've been disrupted!

Disrupted: Indie Filmmakers File under: There’s something happening here. Freddie Wong (FreddieW). Ryan Higa (NigaHiga). Jenna Marbles. Kevin Wu (KevJumba). These are four names that I can mention in...

24/05/2012

Putney Swope is one of our all-time favorites, very excited for this Eclipse series!

23/05/2012

The Film: Putney Swope (1969), now available via The Criterion Collection's Up All Night With Robert Downey Sr. box set Why It’s an Inessential Essential: Filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. is probably ...

11/05/2012

While the latest pics from auteurs are the Cannes entree, documentaries are the tasty side dish, and the ones lacking distribution deals that make the cut are well positioned to ink pacts.. International News from the entertainment source: Variety. Cannes opens screen doors for docs.

09/05/2012

Four months ago I found myself sitting in a half-empty apartment in Toronto about to start the biggest challenge of my life, taking over the position of Director of Programming at Hot Docs. For the previous three months I had been traveling across Europe looking for films for the festival, many of m...

09/05/2012

Media Studies 101 with Beyonce!

Earlier this week, The Beyoncé tumblr went live. And there was much rejoicing: across the web, gossip sites and news organizations alike trumpeted her decision to cultivate a web presence.

08/05/2012

One of our favorite Maurice Sendak quotes.

04/05/2012

Imagine if Frederick Wiseman, the Maysles brothers, or Errol Morris started making films in the twenty-first century. Would their documentaries need an interactive component: an iPad app, separate from the iPhone app, which links to the page? Imagine

04/05/2012

Beastie Boy member Adam Yauch, who went on to found the independent film distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories, has died today Rolling Stone has reported.

04/05/2012

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28/04/2012

When brothers, lovers and spouses work together on documentaries, work tensions can percolate into personal relationships.

27/04/2012

Wolfe has been working behind the scenes on an initiative to secure an "LGBT" category heading as part of all digital distribution platforms. This undertaking is just the latest highlight in Wolfe's ongoing mission to facilitate the broadest possible access to our rich cinematic heritage.

26/04/2012

After scoring a book deal, selling several TV pilots, and making her name 140 characters at a time on Twitter, microblogging mom and Canadian wit Kelly Oxford has sold her first screenplay to Holly...

23/04/2012

For anyone doing without premium cable, last night's premiere of "Veep" -- the new show from "In The Loop" director Armando Iannucci starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a hapless vice president fighting to stay politically relevant -- the first episode is now online, for free (HBO did the same thing for...

19/04/2012

Behind your quirky romantic comedies, lies a secret so dark, it had never been revealed - UNTIL NOW. The Katie Willert Video Experience, Season 2, Episode 5.

18/04/2012

At a recent preview screening of Donal Mosher and Mike Palmieri's "Off Label" (which makes its world premiere this week at the Tribeca Film Festival), Palmieri was lurking through the audience taking close-up footage of people's hands with his DSLR camera (digital single-lens reflex, cameras which, ...

17/04/2012

One of our recent favorites..

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17/04/2012

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17/04/2012

Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism Monday

13/04/2012

12/04/2012

Alison Willmore interviews Lena Dunham and Judd Apatow on the eve of GIRLS' debut on HBO.

An interview with the producer and the creator/star of HBO's new comedy about young women in New York City.

12/04/2012

Follow up film from the team that made OCTOBER COUNTRY

Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher don't see filmmaking as a choice as much as it is an incurable addiction; fitting for two directors who made a film about pharmaceutical drugs.

12/04/2012

10/04/2012

Many visitors to Los Angeles — indeed, many residents of Los Angeles — struggle for but never quite find a psychological pathway into the place.

09/04/2012

The speculation is a misogynistic assault, the actress writes, and it’s time to change the conversation.

09/04/2012

This weekend, in a post on his popular political blog, Salon's Glenn Greenwald posted a story about the ways that the Department of Homeland Security has routinely intimidated and violated the fourth amendment rights of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who is currently at work on the third of he...

27/03/2012

The 25 projects from around the world selected to take part in this year's pitch forum include TIFF Pitch This! winner Leone Stars (pictured), and Let the Fire Burn, winner of the Realscreen Summit's So You Think You Can Pitch? competition in 2010.

27/03/2012

'The Hunger Games' posted the third-best opening in US history, adding to Hollywood's surge after a poor 2011, which saw the worst ticket sales in 16 years.